Clive Barker Quotes

Every act of genuine creativity means achieving a higher level of self-awareness and personal freedom.

I just like doing things from my own head.

I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

Everything I've performed has been from my own head.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

I care about being creative and expressing myself.

I never wanted to be like anyone growing up. It's always been about the enjoyment, and I've just never wanted to imitate anyone.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that's fun.

We personally don't try to follow industry trends or themes. We just try and make something that we think would be cool and we want to make.

I just really like to find my own ideas.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself.

I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.

The function of education is to help you from childhood not to imitate anybody, but be yourself all the time.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of 'guess what's in the teacher's head?' What the world really needs to know right now is what kind of dreams and ideas are in your head.